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UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General -June 29, 2018

UCSF trauma surgeon Andre Campbell, M.D., who was on the trauma team that treated victims injured in the shooting at the YouTube headquarters in California, vented his frustration over decades of gun violence in a press conference about the shooting. As reported by CNN, Campbell challenged the news media to look beyond the sensational events and address the pervasive omnipresent gun violence that is a daily occurrence in the U.S. Campbell was widely praised in social media for stance as well as his decades of service as a trauma surgeon and mentorship to many generations of medical [...]

Delvecchio Finley, MPP, CEO of the Alameda Health System, visionary leader and agent of change in public health care, and Gregory P. Victorino, M.D., professor of surgery and director of Trauma Services at Highland Hospital, have written an insightful Op-Ed exposing one of the vastly under-appreciated consequences of easy access to guns, namely the lack of heath equity or "the ability to attain one's full health potential". This condition is manifest in low-income and impoverished communities disproportionately affected by gun violence. Fortunately, Alameda Health System has established a [...]

The San Francisco Wraparound Project at ZSFG - by Adaobi Nwabuo-March 12, 2018

The SF examiner highlights The Wraparound's art program. Led by Marco Razo, the art program provides Wraparound clients with a safe space to express themselves. Participants learn and practice fundamental art techniques and in the process often become more open to other interventions. Participants have also had the wonderful opportunity to showcase their work in various venues across San Francisco. Dr. Catherine Juillard was also interviewed.
The Wraparound Project's art program (Full story)

Catherine Juillard, M.D., MPH., is the new director of the UCSF Center for Global Surgical Studies and San Francisco Wraparound Project, two Department of Surgery programs based at Zuckerberg San Francisco General. Dr. Juillard is a general and trauma surgeon and an assistant professor in the department. She did her undergraduate work at Stanford, received her MD from David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and earned an MPH from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. She did her general surgery residency training at UCLA and Trauma/Critical Care fellowship training at [...]

In 2017, San Francisco recorded the lowest number of traffic fatalities in its history, a feat attributed to the outstanding work of the Vision Zero SF program. Vision Zero, a policy adopted by San Francisco in 2014, aims to eliminate all traffic fatalities by 2024 through improved education around traffic safety, better enforcement of traffic laws, and engineering projects to improve road safety. Vision Zero collaborates with the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital to maintain a comprehensive traffic-related injury database. This database combines information from the police [...]

San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital - by Adaobi Nwabuo-October 20, 2017

The Committee on Trauma (COT) of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), with contributions from Wraparound's Founding Director Rochelle Dicker, developed a strategy to reduce death and disability from firearm injury. This strategy is based on a public health model and includes prevention of injuries through Violence Intervention Programs such as The Wraparound Project. This article is a compilation of both the epidemiology of firearm injuries and the efforts to prevent injuries, and is a critical step to raising awareness of this burden and the role of Public Health methodology in addressing [...]

The San Francisco Wraparound Project at ZSFG - by Adaobi Nwabuo-October 20, 2017

Interpersonal injuries remain a leading cause of death and injury in the US, disproportionately affecting minority populations. Using the public health model to reduce reinjury, which entails identifying and addressing underlying risk factors for injury, is crucial to closing the revolving door of interpersonal injuries. This risk factor assessment should ideally be done in a timely manner and trauma centers can play a critical role in doing so. Wraparound's Founding Director Dr. Rochelle Dicker contributed to a primer for developing a Hospital-based Violence Intervention Program (HVIP) for [...]

The San Francisco Wraparound Project at ZSFG - by Adaobi Nwabuo-October 20, 2017

The San Francisco Wraparound Project was honored with the Economic Inclusion Award at the Excellence in Partnership Awards hosted by the Center for Community Engagement. This award was given in recognition of the Arborist Apprenticeship Program, a collaboration between The San Francisco Wraparound Project and Friends of the Urban Forest. The Arborist Apprenticeship program strives to address unemployment by providing participants with arborist training. This training includes landscaping, pruning, and planting but also provides skills in leadership, professionalism and customer service which [...]

Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital recently celebrated the one-year anniversary of the debut of the Wraparound mural, a profound expression of art and healing that proudly hangs on a wall near the Wraparound Project offices at ZSFG. The mural is the creation of Marco Razo, a noted artist, who first learned of the Wraparound Project after he lost a family member to violence in 2016. The core mission of the Wraparound Project is the prevention of violence thorough culturally sensitive community interventions and support of its victims through proactive outreach, empathy and emotional [...]

The San Francisco Wraparound Project, led by Catherine Juillard, MD, MPH, was recently featured on BBC's World hacks – a program which explores innovative ways to solve the world's problems. The moving documentary highlights some of the achievements of the Wraparound Project as well as one of its core components – using the period immediately following injury as a teachable moment, a golden opportunity to provide transformative interventions to victims of violent injury.
Darius, a former Wraparound client, takes viewers on a journey through the neighborhood where he was shot and the hospital [...]

The New York Times reports on the UCSF Trauma Recovery Center (TRC), a multidisciplinary team of mental health professionals that helps trauma victims "surmount the psychic hurdle between 'victim' and 'survivor'. For survivors of violent injury, the psychological effects often outlast the physical damage. Mental health issues like PTSD, anxiety, and depression can be significant barriers to recovery from traumatic injury. Moreover, the fear of the stigma sometimes associated with seeking out mental health treatment makes treatment even more difficult.
Partnering with TRC, the San Francisco [...]

San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General -January 27, 2016

SF Wraparound Director, Dr. Rochelle Dicker provides insight into the growth of hospital intervention programs for patients who are injured as a result of violence. The following Washington Post article reports that patients with gunshot or stab wounds are more likely to be re-injured, especially if their circumstances do not change after injury. In addition to being more likely to face issues of domestic violence, mental illness, and substance abuse, a lack of stable housing and poverty are stressors that can result in health problems. Research finds that the need for intervention is [...]

UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General - by Richard Barg-November 23, 2015

The San Francisco General Hospital Foundation announced on Yahoo Finance/Marketwired "its public-private partnership to ensure high quality health care for all San Franciscans, a milestone marked with the dedication and ribbon cutting at the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center".
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - November 21, 2015) Today, San Francisco General Hospital Foundation was joined by Dr. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Mayor Ed Lee, city officials, hospital staff, patients and hundreds of San Francisco residents to celebrate [...]

San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General -January 06, 2015

Dan Flanagan, Executive Director of Friends of the Urban Forest (FUF), writing in the December, 2014 issue, of "Tree Scapes", the organization's newsletter, talks about the recent successes of Junior and Orlando, young survivors of violence who came to FUF by way of the San Francisco Wraparound Project:
Meet Junior and Orlando, young men who have become beloved and hard-working members of our team since they joined us this summer. They came to us through the San Francisco Wraparound Project, a program based at San Francisco General Hospital that helps young survivors of violence to change [...]

San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General -April 28, 2014

KPIX 5 (CBS/San Francisco) honored Rochelle Dicker, M.D., a trauma surgeon at SFGH, with its Jefferson Award for her work in stemming the epidemic of violent injuries at San Francisco General Hospital through the San Francisco Wraparound Project which she is Director of:
San Francisco General Hospital said a third of the shooting, stabbing and beating victims it treats return to the emergency room, injured from yet another crime. But one doctor has come up with a way to stop the revolving door of violence.
This week's Jefferson Award winner said there is a teachable moment when a badly [...]

San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General -February 14, 2013

Dr. Rochelle Dicker was honored at the annual Heroes & Hearts event held by the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation. The honor was bestoyed in recognition of Dr. Dicker's exceptional and inspirational work on behalf of patients and the community. Heroes & Hearts began in 2006 and brings the Bay Area community together to:
Celebrate the essential role The General plays in our City and its community impact
Continue the Hearts in San Francisco project
Honor local heroes whose actions improve our community
Raise funds to support the Foundation's mission
The fundraiser is [...]

San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General -February 13, 2013

NBC Latino reports on the work of San Francisco General Hospital's violence-intervention program, The San Francisco Wraparound Project:
Javier Antezana is one of the first people to approach a patient's bedside when doctors rush a gunshot victim to the emergency room but he's no surgeon. As a case manager for the San Francisco General Hospital's violence-intervention program, his job is to think past the hospital stay, to the critical 24-48 hour window when the victim is most likely to retaliate.
"I tell them 'You don't have to prove yourself to your gang, to your community to anybody,'" [...]

San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General -April 30, 2011

KPIX 5 (Oakland KCBS) reports on the prevalence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among young gunshot victims, a phenomenon typically linked to soldiers of war:
After Emergency Room doctors patch up a young gunshot victim, the patient is given time to recover from the physical wound. While time may heal, there is still the mental wound that lingers according to Anne Marks, the executive director of Oakland-based Youth Alive—an urban violence prevention organization.
Many young gunshot victims are experiencing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), something that was initially [...]

San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General -April 05, 2011

Missionlocal.org reports on a story entitled "The Gang War That Wasn't" in which representatives of the San Francisco Wraparound Project played a critical role in averting violence after angry members of rival gangs converged on SFGH's Emergency Room.
Did the Mission avert a gang war?
At a community meeting last week at Mission Police Station, Capt. Greg Corrales for the first time offered details on the fatal shooting of Aldo "Trigger" Troncoso - the neighborhood's first homicide of the year - and the aftermath.
Stories of violence averted are not often told, but that's the story Corrales [...]

San Francisco Wraparound Project at Zuckerberg San Francisco General -March 24, 2010

Dr. Rochelle Dicker received the 2010 Chancellor's Award for Public Service in the faculty/academic category. The award was recognition of her work as Director and Founder of the Wraparound Project for Comprehensive Rehabilitation, an outstanding violence prevention program that has developed a new approach to the care of the violently injured by instituting a program, based on the public health model of injury prevention, to reduce injury recidivism.